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Interesting that DFW write this in 1993 just before reality tv took off with real world and then offed himself in 2008 just on the cusp of social media emerging… and was presciently obsessed with exactly the dynamics that came after
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I think I glanced at this DFW essay a long time ago, but didn’t finish it (it’s 44 dense pages). Reads at once prescient, dated, and curiously blind to itself. It’s basically “TV is eating the world” circa 1993.
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